Day Six: Non-Verbal Dialogue

I started thinking about the subject of the video and identified it as exploring non-verbal dialogue and its effects on a mutually satisfying discussion generating new, unimagined possibilities.

The video explores the psycho-physical elements influencing two people who are having a political discussion.

In the center of the physical body there is the heart.  The heart symbolized what each person loves and deeply cares about.  Between the people is a heart drawing.  It is messy and beautiful.  Each person tries to share what they deeply love and care about.  They try to take it out of themself and put it forward to be seen by the other but it must pass through a double sided curtain, the in-between.  Inside the curtain space it feels like reality but it is a space of memory when all of the films and tapes of why its not safe to show what you love are playing.  The curtain distorts what each person can see outside.

This film will look at the curtain, showing three stages

Alone

Inside

Connected to self and other

I played around with hanging curtains made out of heart drawings printed on tissue paper.  The rectangle looks too much like I used store bought paper and glued them on balsa wood.  The shapes and materials look asian with the silk paper and minimal design and that esthetic might take away from the story.  So then I though, hmm maybe if I use a thorny branch as the frame and sew the paper to the branch…getting closer but then it moves away from the idea of curtain into more of a wall.  It is very important for me to demonstrate the space in the curtain can feel enormous when you are inside but once you leave the space it is actually quite small, thin, It is something one can pass through.  When on the outside one can listen and respond with clarity and vulnerability, needed elements in a politics discussion.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18UoYEToo48q-htIGDSSiDoGORJFuBgUW/view?usp=sharing